The COVID-19 pandemic and the “new standard” have repositioned the way we do things, from day-to-day activities like food shopping to the operation of giant industries. With increased hygiene and sanitation measures in the workplace and physical distance measures to be followed, business activities and jobs have undergone a radical change to ensure that health measures are the target.
The new popular has also led to a greater demand for digitization and automation in processes that were carried out manually in the past.
Gaia Smart Cities is one of the startups that helped automate workflow and digitally the functions of environments built in vertical sectors of the industry even before the pandemic arrived. This is a roll-out of a horizontal SaaS product that uses IoT, AI, and SaaS responses to manage an intelligent workforce, intelligent workflows, and a visitor experience.
Gaia’s co-founders, Amrita Chowdhury and Mayuri Naik. (Image source: Gaia)
“Basically, we’re a technology start-up. We started out as an IoT company and have temporarily become an IOT and knowledge company. Then we learned that the data wasn’t enough, so we brought many algorithms based on artificial intelligence and device learning on the device. and degrees in the cloud for assignment, orchestration, optimization, etc. Once again, we learned that even that’s not enough and that we want to help our consumers close the circle,” says Amrita Chowdhury, one of the startup’s six co-founders founded in 2015.
Today, the startup provides answers for smart sites and cities, combining IoT, ICT, AI/ML and analytics to provide information. It has effectively implemented multi-site, multi-parameter metrics control at sites across industries, adding facilities, buildings and campuses, transportation hubs, airports, railways, subway stations, warehouses, bloodless chains, bloodless logistics, hospitals, retail, infrastructure. urban and public spaces in the city. It also works intensively with the Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) as an integral component of the National Project Management Unit (UGP) of the Swachh Bharat Mission.
During the pandemic, Gaia’s responses are used in six hospitals to monitor hygiene and sanitation standards, staff control and patient delight in control. The startup has deployed them to hospitals in Raipur, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Delhi and Patna.
The start-up also reused its existing generation to help the government in the city of Agra provide emergency pandemic response facilities to the gates of citizens.
“We were able to provide home citizenship facilities through an undeniable application that we connected to our Workforce Services and Management Orchestration and the municipal government was able to provide emergency facilities to citizens. This was a total one-week change for Agra COVID-19 and we implemented several interventions in record time using our existing platforms to allow citizens and the city to connect to emergency facilities,” says Mayuri, who has more than 20 years of global experience in telecommunications, computing, electronic learning and matrix design, advertising. multimedia.
Amrita, which manages the advertising aspect of commissioning, says its automation platform has also been offering facilities to Indian railways for more than a year. Their responses are also implemented in agri-food and agricultural industries classified as essential facilities.
The penetration of the generation in all industries and its influence on the improvement of built – and small – environments prompted the founders to create Gaia.
“Much of the technological inclusion began to occur in other parts of the built environments and, over the time we started, the Smart Cities project also came into play, but more than that, there was a progression in how generation can help control the area and facilities,” says Amrita.
Gaia has six founding members: Sumit Chowdhury, Amrita Chowdhury, Mayuri Naik, Bipin Pradeep Kumar, Prasun Agarwal and Nijesh Kadakia.
The founders of Gaia Sumit Chowdury, Amrita Chowdhury, Bipin Pradeep Kumar and Mayuri Naik. (Image source: Gaia)
Since its inception, Gaia has served more than 60 consumer entities and recently opened a branch in the United States and plans to expand into the global market.
The start-up course has also been plagued by demanding situations. Amrita explains that they have faced demanding situations on the floor, such as power outages, signal interruption, weak network areas, environmental wear and tear of equipment. Customers would need them to fix everything, which meant they might not only be an IoT and analytics company, but also have to take over to help customers.
Mayuri adds that they also faced popular demanding situations, such as building the right team, attracting smart talent, educational staff, funding, money-demanding situations, and more when creating the startup.
Amrita says the startup is very positive about the long term despite the pandemic, as it sees a shift in verbal exchange towards virtual transformation and virtual operations as it integrates new customers. She believes that existing estrangement measures and fitness needs will drive the need for automation of procedures and others and the dynamic orchestration of the responsibilities that the startup can provide.
He also adds that the startup has a dual plan for long-term expansion: one is to expand in India and also expand into the global market.
(Edited through Rekha Balakrishnan)
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